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TIL Althea Gibson was appointed New Jersey's athletic commissioner in 1976. Gibson was the first woman in the country to hold such a position but resigned after one year due to a lack of autonomy in her role stating she did not wish to simply be a figurehead.

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xVD67 TIL a dead girl was found in the River Seine in France in the 1880s. The coroner was so infatuated with her that he took a mold of her face. Her face became a morbid fascination and many copies were made. When the first CPR dummy was made, it used her face and has since continued to.
7rJvr TIL That an estimated 1.25 BILLION animals were lost in Australia's bush fires.
BRXd TIL in 1983, North Korea tried to assassinate the President of South Korea with explosives. One of the assassins tried to kill himself with a grenade, failed, and became Burma’s longest serving prisoner.
yARl TIL when Eddie Murphy was on SNL in the early 80s, other cast members often had to go downstairs after shows to catch a cab for him because no cab drivers would stop for a young black man late at night.
OoNm6 TIL: The wealth of a samurai in feudal Japan was measured in terms of koku; one koku, supposed to be the amount of rice it took to feed one man for a year, was equivalent to around 180 liters.